Lot 103: Two works: (i) Green Reflecting Head Trio No. 1; (ii) Green Reflecting Head Duo No. 1, 2006

Two works: (i) Green Reflecting Head Trio No. 1; (ii) Green Reflecting Head Duo No. 1, 2006
Printed paper with steel pins. Each: 47 x 66.7 x 6.4 cm (18 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 2 1/2 in).  Signed and dated 'Ashley Bickerton 2006' lower right of each sheet.

 Private collection, Hong Kong

It’s easy to forget what natural-born moralists American artists are until you encounter someone like Ashley Bickerton. His work doesn’t just wag a finger or propose reform. It offers a worldview that is basically an end-of-the-world view, beyond solution, beyond revulsion, blissed-out on the terrible wonder of it all…
Some of Mr. Bickerton’s recent work is almost as aggressively outré; some is just spooky. A series of mixed-media pieces done in collaboration with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute is in the latter category: images of green-skinned creatures rising from an oil-slicked sea littered with cans and bottles.
(Holland Cotter, Art in Review: Ashley Bickerton, New York Times, 19 May 2006)